Real Live Poets @ Harland Works
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Please join us on 22nd July at 7 pm 2020 for our first ever poetry event! We are very excited to be welcoming some of Sheffield’s amazing poets to perform their work LIVE!
If the weather allows we will be holding this in our sunny courtyard. If it’s rainy, we will move indoors. We will limit tickets to allow for social distancing in case we do have to hold it indoors, so if you’d like to come please don’t hesitate to get your ticket soon. Food and hot drinks will be available to buy in the cafe: you are welcome to bring your own bottle along with you too.
Book your tickets using our pay as you feel donation button. We look forward to you joining us on 22nd July.
More info - This event happened in 2020
Sheffield's poets have been liberated into the open air and they'd love to share their new poems with you! Lockdown has been a strange time of Zoom readings and digital applause and so we're hoping you feel like experiencing the real thing again. The evening will include readings from Helen Mort, Nasser Hussain, Suzannah Evans and Vicky Morris. We also have a limited number of five minute open mic spots which will be available to sign up for on the night. We'll be doing everything we can to ensure this event is safe, so please do bring face masks and hand sanitiser and use them as you feel comfortable. Entry is by PAYF donation, which will go to the poets.
Suzannah Evans lives in Sheffield. Her pamphlet Confusion Species was a winner in the 2012 Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition and her debut collection Near Future was published by Nine Arches Press in 2018. She was the winner of a Gladstone’s Library residency in October 2019 for Near Future.
Nasser Hussain is a lecturer in literature and Creative Writing at Leeds Beckett University. His last book, SKY WRI TEI NGS, was published with Toronto’s Coach House Books in 2018. He is part of the Ledbury Poetry Critics collective, and is currently at work on a book of love poems.
Vicky Morris is a British/Welsh poet and creative educator based in Sheffield. She’s been widely published in places like The Rialto, Under the Radar and The North. In 2020, she won first place in the Aurora Prize for Poetry, and was shortlisted in the Magma Poetry Pamphlet Competition. Vicky has worked for many years developing young creatives and founded Hive Young Writers Project in 2016. Her Pamphlet If All This Never Happened was a winner in the 2020 Fool For Poetry competition. www.vickymorris.co.uk
Helen Mort is an award-winning author based in Sheffield. She has published two poetry collections (Division Street, 2013 and No Map Could Show Them, 2016), a debut novel (Black Car Burning, 2019), a short story collection (Exire, 2019) and also writes drama and creative non fiction. She has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Prize and won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize in 2015. She appears regularly on BBC radio.